Synopses & Reviews
Here's the band--
they play and play.
1 osprey dances ballet.... That twirling osprey joins a host of other swinging animals in this counting jamboree. By the time ten flamingos go tango, the dance floor expands in a special foldout with 55 animals rocking away!
Arthur Dorros's playful verse and Caldecott Medal winner Emily Arnold McCully's boisterous characters dance right off the page and will have you twirling on your toes in no time!
Synopsis
In this counting book, ten groups of animals indulge in ten different dances, from one osprey dancing ballet to ten flamingos doing the tango. Full-color illustrations.
About the Author
Arthur Dorros learned Spanish while traveling and living in Latin America and has helped teach his son the language. He is the author of many acclaimed children's books and has received an Orbis Pictus Award and the Parents' Choice Award. His picture books include
Abuela,
Mamá and Me, and
Papá and Me, which won a Pura Belpré Honor Award. Arthur lives in Seattle, Washington.
Emily Arnold McCully has illustrated more than a hundred books for children, including her own First Snow and Arnold Adoff's Black Is Brown Is Tan. She won the Caldecott Medal for her book Mirette On the High Wire.